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![Local wrestler Sealiitu Mauga [courtesy photo]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Sialeiitu.jpg?itok=fpxvup8g "Local wrestler Sealiitu Mauga [courtesy photo]")
Team American Samoa has arrived in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan for the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games - a first for the territory.
Samoa News is providing coverage of the Games, sponsored by Carl's Jr.
Local wrestler Sealiitu Mauga, 19, is one of six local wrestlers who will be competing in...
![A Vaiala Tongan player, left, and PanSa opponent battle for possession of the ball during a women’s Match Day 2 game of the 2017 National League on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017 at Pago Park Soccer Stadium. Vaiala Tongan won 2-1.
[FFAS MEDIA/Brian Vitolio]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/VT%20PS%20W%20action_5641.jpg?itok=RsS3HxwH "A Vaiala Tongan player, left, and PanSa opponent battle for possession of the ball during a women’s Match Day 2 game of the 2017 National League on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017 at Pago Park Soccer Stadium. Vaiala Tongan won 2-1.
[FFAS MEDIA/Brian Vitolio]")
WOMEN'S DIVISION
The women’s FFAS National Cup has changed hands for the second week in-a-row with the Tafuna Jets taking it away from Taputimu Youth in a 1-0 win on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017 at Pago Park Soccer Stadium.
It was only Match Day 2 of the women’s 2017 FFAS National League but the Cup has...
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan — Three members of Team American Samoa to the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games were on hand to attend the first Team Welcoming Ceremony held Friday Sept. 15. The rest of the team, training in California, is expected to arrive Sunday September 17 in time to participate...
![Despite tough competition in Apia, the American Samoa Amateur Boxing Association team that represented the territory during the Teuila International Boxing Championships returned home victorious, winning the Samoa Championship Trophy. [photo: AF]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/officials%20n%20boxers_0589.jpg?itok=Ge8yVeZI "Despite tough competition in Apia, the American Samoa Amateur Boxing Association team that represented the territory during the Teuila International Boxing Championships returned home victorious, winning the Samoa Championship Trophy. [photo: AF]")
The American Samoa boxing team returned home with the Teuila International Boxing Championship title that they won in Apia last week.
Samoa came in as the defending champs, holding the Samoa Championship Cup.
But this time around, it would be American Samoa's turn to have bragging rights, after...
![Iafeta "Jeff" Vou [courtesy photo]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Iafeta%20Vou.jpg?itok=2hixoJ2T "Iafeta \"Jeff\" Vou [courtesy photo]")
One of the six local wrestlers who are now in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan to represent the territory for the first time ever at the 5th Asian Martial Arts and Indoor Games is Iafeta "Jeff" Vou.
The 19-year-old student who attended Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, MIssouri is one of seven local...
![[Courtesy photo]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Nolan%20Photo.jpg?itok=rgFSVBS4 "[Courtesy photo]")
American Samoa's first ever delegation to the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games includes Nolan Puletasi, a 20-year-old valet, who studied computer science at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.
Coverage of the Games is being sponsored by Carl's Jr.
Puletasi is one of seven local athletes - 6...
![Isaac Silafau - Am Samoa's track & field hopeful. [courtesy photo]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Isaac%20Silafau.jpg?itok=2Mq-bxGB "Isaac Silafau - Am Samoa's track & field hopeful. [courtesy photo]")
American Samoa's only track & field competitor to the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games is Isaac Silafau.
For the first time ever, the territory is sending seven local athletes to compete in 2 out of 21 sporting events set to take place Sept. 17-27 in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.
Coverage of...
![Samoana Sharks' Elliot Lelei with his first score of the game, a long pass by Feala that netted the opening touchdown of the match. Elliot Lelei caught 4 touchdown passes from Feala in a lopsided 34-8 win against Leone last Saturday. [photo: TG]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ashsaa%20wk%201_4786.jpg?itok=9Gts_fyu "Samoana Sharks' Elliot Lelei with his first score of the game, a long pass by Feala that netted the opening touchdown of the match. Elliot Lelei caught 4 touchdown passes from Feala in a lopsided 34-8 win against Leone last Saturday. [photo: TG]")
Last Saturday during the opening of the American Samoa High School Athletics Association (ASHSAA) 2017-2018 football season, Samoana and Leone met in the highly anticipated "Clash of the Titans".
This year's coverage of ASHSAA football is proudly sponsored by Congresswoman Aumua Amata.
The Lions/...
![Meet Pita Fanolua, a student at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) who will be representing American Samoa at the Asian Indoor Games in wrestling. Fanolua and five other local wrestlers will be competing in various weight categories over a span of two days, Sept. 25-26, in an event where the level of competition, according to ASNOC general secretary Ethan Lake, is comparable to the Olympics. [photo: courtesy]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Pika.jpg?itok=458clyti "Meet Pita Fanolua, a student at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) who will be representing American Samoa at the Asian Indoor Games in wrestling. Fanolua and five other local wrestlers will be competing in various weight categories over a span of two days, Sept. 25-26, in an event where the level of competition, according to ASNOC general secretary Ethan Lake, is comparable to the Olympics. [photo: courtesy]")
Seven local athletes have been selected to represent American Samoa for the first time ever, at the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games set to be held Sept. 17-27 in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, where they will compete alongside their Oceania counterparts and all 45 member countries of the Olympic...
![Tafuna quarterback Tala Sufia looking at the corner of the end zone as he muscled this one in, during a Varsity game against the Vikings last Saturday. Sufia led the Warriors to their first victory of the season with a 42-34 win. [photo: TG]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ashsaa%20wk%201_4210.jpg?itok=0bqGz4ry "Tafuna quarterback Tala Sufia looking at the corner of the end zone as he muscled this one in, during a Varsity game against the Vikings last Saturday. Sufia led the Warriors to their first victory of the season with a 42-34 win. [photo: TG]")
The American Samoa High School Athletics Association (ASHSAA) 2017-18 football season officially opened last Saturday with a bang: The 'Battle of the Toas' between Tafuna and Faga'itua, and the 'Clash of the Titans' between Samoana and Leone.
It was a day filled with football action, as parents and...